Anna Gonsiorowski

I am a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the Cognitive Sciences program at Georgia State University. My research
is centered around the themes of cognitive development and social learning. Past and current projects investigate skills such as imitation, tool use,
facial motion processing, emotion recognition, and prospective memory in typically developing children and adults. I also collaborate on research
projects that examine these abilities in children with developmental disabilities (including autism) and nonhuman primates.

Education

Ph.D. in PsychologyExpected May 2016

Georgia State University, Atlanta‚ GA

Cognitive Sciences Program

Advisor: Rebecca Williamson, Ph.D.

Dissertation: “Adults' and Children's Identification of Faces and Emotions from Isolated Motion Cues”

M.A. in PsychologyMay 2014

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Cognitive Sciences Program

Advisor: Rebecca Williamson, Ph.D.

Thesis: “Children's Imitation of the Majority in a Goal-Directed Task: Examining Number of Demonstrators and Demonstration Modality”

B.S. in PsychologyMay 2011

Lehigh University , Bethlehem, PA

Cognitive Psychology Concentration

Senior Research Project: “Report a Study, Study a Report: Using Phrase and Word Pair Reversals to Study Speech Production”

Research Experience

Graduate Research AssistantAugust 2011 – Present

Learning and Development Lab, Georgia State University

Advisor: Rebecca Williamson, Ph.D.

The Learning and Development Lab investigates how typically developing children learn from the people around them.
As a Graduate Research Assistant, I design, implement, and publish research within the realms of cognitive
and social development. I also mentor undergraduates through supervising individual projects that
culminate in conference presentations.

Undergraduate Lab ManagerSpring 2011

Language Production Lab, Lehigh University

Advisor: Padraig O'Seaghdha, Ph.D.

The Language Production Lab investigates speech production and planning in English-speaking adults.
As Undergraduate Lab Manager, I trained research assistants in data collection and coding procedures
and participated in weekly lab meetings. I also designed and implemented a senior research project
investigating cognitive competition between semantic and grammatical structures.

Undergraduate Research Assistant2009 – 2011

Language Production Lab, Lehigh University

Advisor: Padraig O'Seaghdha, Ph.D.

Supported lab research covering a range of topics including sentence production,
syntactic priming, and interference in speech planning; individually responsible for
processing undergraduate participants and coding data using Adobe Audition

Gonsiorowski, A. & Williamson, R. A. (March, 2015). Child's perceptions of goal-directed acts: Manipulating the number of demonstrators in an imitation task. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.